Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PRISONERS' INTERSTATE LEAVE ACT 1997 (NO. 99 OF 1997) - SECT 6

6. (1) The Administrator may, in writing, grant to a prisoner permission to absent himself or herself from a remand centre and to travel in or through a participating jurisdiction specified in the permission for a purpose that is specified in the permission, being a purpose of a kind set out in subsection (2).

(2) A permit may be granted for any of the following purposes:

        (a)     the medical treatment of the prisoner;

        (b)     to visit a person with whom the prisoner has had a long-standing personal relationship if that person is seriously ill or in acute personal need;

        (c)     to attend the funeral of a person with whom the prisoner has had a long-standing personal relationship;

        (d)     if the prisoner is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islands origin—to attend—

              (i)     the funeral service or burial of a member of his or her immediate or extended family; or

              (ii)     an occasion of special significance to members of his or her immediate or extended family;

        (e)     any other compassionate purpose;

        (f)     to assist a police officer of the ACT or another state or territory with the investigation of an offence;

        (g)     for any other purpose described in the Regulations.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a person is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islands origin if he or she—

        (a)     is a descendant of an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander;

        (b)     identifies as an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander; and

        (c)     is accepted as an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander by an Aboriginal or a Torres Strait Island community.